X-Radiation

This morning we went to check out a business incubator called Frameboxx. This is a picture of some of their animators. They have a pretty cool business model. They have a bunch of cg artists accepted to their program who train on real world projects. They get the projects in-house by offering free work for back end participation of the projects if they sell, so if you’ve got a computer animation pilot episode for something in mind and have some strong art direction they’ll execute the first episode for you free of charge. If the pilot sells, you pay them based on your arranged contract. It’s a really neat idea. They are also bronze sponsors of SIGGRAPH Asia 2008. http://www.frameboxx.in/

Today I paid a visit to R&H in Mumbai India. They also have a shop in Hyderbad and another in Malaysia. The interior design of the Mumbai office is a sweet set up. The cubicles are designed like villages with about eight artists in each pod.

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Arrived in Mumbai this morning. R.K. Chand picked me up at the airport with his driver Vishnu. Chand is a Co-Founder of CG Tantra, a successful web portal for the Indian computer graphics community. CG Tantra is one my sponsors for the Indian portion of this trip so we’ll be spending some time together over the next few days. Check out the web site at http://www.cgtantra.com

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I’m in Thailand less than 24 hours. The hotel is nice. We had some audio problems during the presentation but kept moving forward. Tomorrow I need to catch a flight to Mumbai.

This is my name on Chinese chop, a gift from my friends in Singapore.

The crazy schedule continues. I left Singapore this morning and arrived in Bangkok around 11am. I have a presentation at 3pm then catch a flight at 8:30 am tomorrow bound for Mumbai.

Last night I presented my presentation at the Digital Media Deisgn Center at Nanyang Polytechnic. YT Lee hosted the event, produced by Keolnmesse. I met another Denny who helped with the technical issues in the audiorium as well as Albert from the school. Mark Chavez was there. Marc is currently setting up the animation program at NTU but went to school at UCLA with Doug Chiang and worked at Dreamworks back on Prince of Egypt. (more…)

Having some beers with Michael Lim and Mark Chavez after the presentation.

Last night YT picked me up in his cool Citroen. YT, Michael Lim and myself headed over to the Little India part of Singapore to dine at the Apolo Banana Leaf Curry restaurant. It was delicious, especially the big bowl of fish head curry! Yum. Afterwards we walked through Little India was was lit up beautifully for the Festival of Lights, Deepavali. (more…)

After my Natto breakfast I met up with Denny and headed over to the MediaBlitz building. I met Andez, an animator who owns his own studio and teaches at Digital Studios. I also met Udo who stage managed the event and Indah who MC’d. I interviewed for a podcast and went to lunch with Andi, the owner of Digital Studios as well as Paula and Mita from Koelnmesse, the producers for SIGGRAPH Asia.

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